Baby Aurora has Arrived

In case anyone missed the emails, texts and facebook updates my daughter Aurora Elizabeth Sanford was born on September 23rd, 2009 at 08:21. She was 8 pounds 12 ounces and 20.5 inches long. She also looked kind of like an alien, but I won't hold that against her. She was much cuter once the slime was removed. Anyway as promised here are two photo albums of her. If other people have good pictures please send them to me so I can add them to the gallery. Thanks.

Click the galleries to get higher resolution photo's directly at Picasa Web. Oh, and since this is my geek blog, I highly recommend the Picasa photo organizer. It does not mess with where the photo's are on disk and it has really cool facial recognition built in to automatically group people into albums. Working with it made me realize a couple things. First, I know a lot of people named Chris. Second, I have a lot of pictures of people I do not remember.

The Birthing (PG-13)


Aurora and friend's at less than 1 week old

Aurora's castle

Normal people just paint the nursery pink or something for a girl, well we are not normal. We are doing the room as a castle balcony. There are mountains, forests, trees, and the ocean. We will be adding a village and pirate ship soon. As she gets older we will add the volcano and rampaging dragon.

Since this is going to be a babies room the base coat is all Olympic Zero VOC Low odor acrylic paint with an eggshell finish. The details are done in non-toxic acrylic paint form Micheal's.

Anyway instead of trying to explain it in any more detail, I will just include the Picasa slide show of the painting so far.

Baby projects: The Closet

The first baby project is done. I have remodeled the closet in the nursery. It was just your standard boring closet, but now it is a closet for the ages. Okay, it's not that great, but it is more useful than the standard layout and should last Aurora until we move or throw her out of the house.

I love building things, be it computers or anything else, but the first step of any construction project is always my favorite, demolition!

 

We were careful to save the shelf that went across the top, since I am a cheap bastard and we used it to make selves for the end of the closet.

While my dad and I worked on the demolition and the shelves, Liz and Barb worked on the shelf/drawer tower thing from Lowes.

After a little trouble and a lot of jerry rigging we got everything in. As per my usual specification you could store an elephant on the shelves and the center piece is bolted to the wall with 9 inch molly bolts, so it's not going anywhere. The clothes bars it came with are a little flimsy so I may have to replace them with galvenized pipe in case Aurora wants to do pull ups on them, but that can wait a bit.

 

Next project: Crib assembly.